Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-04-02
Sermon Of Rev. DR.. Talmage.

u, prcacneu Ill C1G OeCOiitt IcSuR
terrain church of this place this
morning. He arrived here yester-
day from 81. Louis. and is stopping
over Sunday on his way to Topeka
Kansas. After expounding An ap-
prnpriate chapter he gave out The
hymn beginning:
s..Jesns, lovprot my soul.
Let me to thy bosom 1y."
His subject was "Cheer for fire
Disheartened,' and his text, Psalm
cxIii.. v. 4: "No man cared for my
soul" DR.. Talmage said:
David, the ruhicund lad, had he
come the battle.worn warrior.Thre
thousand armed men in pursuit of
him, lie had hidden in. the cave .of
Engedi, linear the coast OF the Dead
Sea- Utterly ia ggeas oG witt the
!Epnisui tsas yolIIs sha.Sl qftsn been
Wort 6fi fliisthe TIL :of fa
Shutdown aud cried out: No man
cared for my soul"
Ifyou should fall through ahatch
way, or slip from n scatfolding. or
drop through SIX ylight,t there would
be hundreds Of people who would
come around and pick mp your body
and carry it TO your home or to the
hospital. I saw a great crowd of
people in The street, and | asked:
"What is the matterf" and | found
out that Il poor laboring MN had
fallen under snnStroke, and all oar
eyes we're filled with tears at the
thought Of his distracted wife and
his desolated home. We are all
sympathetic with physical disaster,
but how little sympathy for spirit
ual woes! There are men in this
house who have come to mii-liie
who have never YET been once per-
sonally accosted about their eter-
nal welfare. A great sermon drop
ped into an audience Of hundreds
Of thousands willdo its work; bnt it
this world is ever to he brought to
God it will be through little sermons
preached to private Christians, TO
an audience Of one. The sisters
letter poStmarked at the village :
the word uttered in your he;trlng,
half of smiles and half Of tears
the religious postscript to Il bust
ness letter-the card leftat the door
when you had some kind Of trouble
tile anxious look of some one
across IL church aisle while I'LL earn
est sermon was being preached,
swung you into the kingdom Of
God. But there are hundreds OF
people in this house who will tlke
the word that David used in the
past tenseand employ it in the past
tense and employ it in the present
tense, and cry ont: sNo man cares
for my soul.n You feel as you go
day by day in the tug and .iostle Of
life that it Is every IN IN for MIN self.
You can endure the pressure Of
commercial affairs, and would con-
slider it almost impertinent for any
one to ask you whether YOU are
making or losing money. But there
have been times when you would
have drawn your check for thou
ands Of dollars if some one would
only help your soul out of its per.
plexities. Tbereale questions about
your higher destiny that ache,
and distract, and agonise you ut
times. Let no one suppose tla5
because you are busy all day with
hardware, OF dry goods, or grocer
les, or grain, that your thoughts are
no longer than your yard stick, and
stop at the brass headed nails Of
the store counter. When you speak
once about religious things you
think five thousand times. They
call you II wording. You are not
Il wording. Ofconrse you are in
dustrious and keep busy, but you
have had your eyes opened to the
realities of the next world. You are
nota fool. You know better than
any one can tell you thata few years
at most will wind up your earthly
engagements, and that you will
take residence in a distant sphere
where all your business adroltness
would be u super fluffy. You some
times think till your head aches
about great religious SUBJECTS
You so down the street with your
eyes fixed OH the pavement obliv
iouS OF the passing multitndes, your
thoughts gone on eternal expedition
You wonder if tue Bible is true, how
much Of it Is literal and how much
is fgurative, il Christ be God, if
there is anything like retribution,
ii you arc immortal, If Il resurrection
will ever take place, what The oc.
cupatlon of your departed kindred
is, what you will be ten thousand
years from now. With cultured
placidity of countenance youare on
fire with agitations Of soul. Oh,
this solitary anxiety OF your whole
lifetime! You have sold goods to
or bought them from Christian PEG.
pie for ten years, and they have
never whispered Que word OF spir
itual counsel. You have passed UP
and down the alsles Of churches
with men who knew that you had
no hope Of heaven,a talked about
the weather, and aboliG your physl-
Cal health, and about everything
but that concerning which you most
wanted to hear them spcak-name-
Iy, your everlasting spirit. Tunes
without numbes you have felt in
Vour heart if Won have NOT uttered